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Covid pushes back Asia Pacific's fight against extreme poverty by 2 years:
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], August 25 (ANI): The Asia Pacific region will find it harder than before to escape poverty as the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed back the fight against poverty in the region by at least two years, according to a report from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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"Complete eradication of extreme poverty will be possible in Kerala in nex
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], July 26 (ANI): Kerala Minister for Local Self Governments and Excise MV Govindan announced that complete eradication of extreme poverty will be possible in Kerala within the next four years.
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Assam to host Commonwealth Parliamentary Association mid-year executive co
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): India has averted the rise in extreme poverty through the food security scheme, Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY), according to the International Monetary Fund report.
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IMF report lauds 'Anna Yojna' for averting extreme poverty during pandemic
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): India has averted the rise in extreme poverty through the food security scheme, Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY), according to the International Monetary Fund report.
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COVID-19 pandemic pushed over half a billion into extreme poverty: UN repo
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [US], December 13 (ANI): The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to halt two decades of global progress towards Universal Health Coverage, according to reports released on Sunday from the World Health Organization (WHO) and World Bank, which reveal more than half a billion people are being
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First consignment of Russian humanitarian aid lands in Kabul
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], November 18 (ANI): The first Russian consignment of humanitarian aid arrived in Kabul on Thursday.
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Nearly 40 million Afghans may fall into 'extreme poverty' by mid 2022: UN
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [US], November 18 (ANI): Raising concern over the ongoing humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, UN Migration Agency said that Afghanistan may fall into "extreme poverty" by mid-2022 if no action is taken immediately to address the simultaneous humanitarian, economic and political c
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Rising poverty moral indictment of our times: Guterres
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New York [US], October 16 (ANI): For the first time in two decades, extreme poverty is on the rise, UN chief Antonio Guterres said in his message released on Friday, marking the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, on October 17.
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World Bank says 100 mln people facing extreme poverty in 2021
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 15 (ANI/Sputnik): An estimated 100 million people experienced extreme poverty this year largely in the so-called middle-income countries (MICs) as a result of the economic crisis brought about by the measures implemented to address the novel coronavirus pandemic, the
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COVID-19 pushes 80 million people in Asia into extreme poverty: ADB
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Manila [The Philippines], August 24 (ANI): The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has pushed an estimated 75 million to 80 million more people in developing Asia into extreme poverty as of last year compared with what would have happened without COVID-19, according to a new report by th
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Fair climate policy could help reduce extreme poverty: Study
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Potsdam [Germany], April 27 (ANI): Climate change threatens to undermine efforts to eradicate extreme poverty. If recent trends continue, the UN goal to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030 will be clearly missed.
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Since secession from Pak, Bangladesh firmly on the path of development
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], March 22 (ANI): As Bangladesh celebrates 50 years of its independence, the nation, born in violence after the 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan, is rapidly moving ahead on the path of development from its initial extreme poverty.
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